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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

G25: 23638796

5/20/1201, Thibaut born in France, s/o 47277592. Thibaut III
& 47277593. Blanche of Navarre. [Born just 4 days before his father died.]

4/1206 at Provens, “I, Robert, count an lord of Dreux and
Braine, … agreement between me and my dearest lady Blance, countess of
Champagne, … house of Torcy … may not make it higher or encircle it until the
countess’s son Thibaut reaches his majority. The countess has allowed me to
build a fortress on my allodial land at Fere, …”

1209, Blanche obtained the king’s promise to accept son
Thibaut’s homage at age 21. King Philip required Thibaut to be raised at the
royal court, where he remained for 4 years.

6/1213, Erard of Brienne [nephew of Erard II, count of
Brienne] challenged Thibaut’s right to succession.

7/1214, King Philip notifies Guillaume of Chartres, master
of the Templars, … The king state that he and Prince Louis affirmed in the
presence of Jean of Brienne, king of Jerusalem, that they will not hear any
case brought against Thibaut by Count Henry II’s daughter until Thibaut reaches
21. (S) Littere Baronum, Evergates, 2003, P122.

1214, At the insistence of Blanche, King Philip accepted the
homage of 14-year-old Thibaut; who promised to remain under his mother’s
tutelage until age 21.

1216, Civil war broke out in Champagne following the
decision of the royal court of peers to confirm the succession of Thibaut IV.

1/7/1219, Letter from Pope Honorius III: “Honorius, etc., to
his beloved children, B[lanche] countess of Champagne, and her son count
Thibaut.” (S) Epistolæ.

4/1219, “I, Simon of Clefmont, make known … because of evil
advice I withdrew my fidelity and homage [in 1216] from nobele lady Countess
Blanche and her son Thibaut, count of Champagne. … I quit to Countess Blanche
and Thibaut the viscounty of Montigny … as well as all the domain I used to
have in Ageville, … Be it known that I am their leigeman for three fiefs …”

5/1220, Thibaut married 1st to Gertrude of Dabo, 16
year-old widow of the Duke of Lorraine; arranged by his mother.

11/1221, At the Court of Peers, the dispute over Champagne and
Brie between Thibaut and Airard de Brieen was settled in Thibaut’s favor.

5/1222, Thibaut succeeded to his titles and divorced Gertrude.

1223, Count Thibaut married 2nd his cousin Agnes of
Beaujeu.

7/14/1223, Louis VIII succeeded as king of France.

11/1/1223, Thibaut the only baron of 27 that did not accept
King Louis VIII’s ordinance prohibiting the recording of debts owed to Jews.

6/1226, King Louis traveled to Languedoc to oversee the
attack on a castle of Raymond VII in the Cathar war. [Thibaut, Count of
Champagne, left at the end of his 40-day required service.]

11/8/1226, King Louis VIII died.

1226, Thibaut, at Avignon, arranged a truce between Queen
Blanche of Castile, regent of France, and revolting barons in Brittany whom he
represented. Blanche convinced son Louis’ uncle Philip and Thibaut to switch
sides.

1226, At Corbeil, many barons pledged support to Peter, count
of Brittany, if he should rebel against King Louis. Count Thibaut of Champagne
came in support of the king with 300 knights, and Peter was forced to yield to the
king’s mercy. (S) Chronicles of the Crusades, Joinville, 2010, P122. [As part
of a reconcilation, Thibaut agreed to a marriage with Peter’s daughter. King
Louis intervened and prevented the marriage, setting off a war by the barons
against Thibaut.]

11/8/1226, Louis IX succeeded his father as King of France;
crowned at Reims. Queen Blanche became regent of France during the minority of
her son.

1227, Thibaut, self-styled “the Queen’s knight” [supposedly because
of love for Queen Blanche], identified by writers of the period as one of the
best poets of his age. (S) The Book of French Songs, Oxenford, 1877, P333.

2/24/1228, “I, Blanche, countess palatine of Troyes, and I
Thibaut, count of Champagne and Brie, make known to all who will see the
present letters …” [Agreement with Henry, Archbishop of Reims.] (S) Epistolæ.

1228, Thibaut accused of betraying and then poisoning the King,
and of having an affair with Queen Blanche. [Thibaut supposedly wrote romantic
poems about Blanche, although she is “anonymous” in the poems.]

1228-29, Queen Blanche assembled her army in support of Thibaut
and marched on Bellesme, considered impregnable. It was also unusual because it
was still very cold. After 2 assualts the fortress fell.

3/12/1229, Thibaut’s mother Blanche died.

1229, Thibaut sold Blois, Sancerre, Chartres and Chateaudun as
fiefs to Queen Blanche for 2,000,000 livres. (S) The Pictorial History of
France, Bussey, 1843, P429.

9/1230, The peace treaty at Compiegne stipulated that
Theobald of Champagne was to expiate the faults alleged against him and remove
his presence by undertaking a crusade with 100 knights to make war on infidels
in Palestine. (S) Saint Louis, Perry, 1901, P52.

1230-31, Thibaut franchised his castellany towns after they had
resisted and invasion by French barons led by Pierre Mauclerc, duke of
Brittany.

7/1231, Agnes died.

3/1232, Thibaut agreed to marry Margaret.

9/22/1232, Thibaut married 15-year-old Margaret.

8/28/1234, King Thibaut inherited the kingdom of Navarre from
his maternal uncle, Sancho the Powerful.

1234, Thibault, King of Navarre and count of Champagne, proposed
a marriage of his daughter, Blanca and the grandson of Berenguela of Castile,
Alfonso.

10/1/1234, Thibault, King of Navarre and count of Champagne,
proposed a marriage of his daughter, Blanca and the grandson of Berenguela of
Castile, Alfonso, s/o Fernando III.

1/3/1235, The king [Henry III of England] will see that the
truce which Rostand de Solio, citizen of Bordeaux, entered into with him in the
king’s name until Easter next, is kept in the form made … no harm shall come
from the land of Navarre to Gascony, nor from Gascony to Navarre. (S) CPRs.

1/1236, Theobald, count of Champagne and king of Navarre, and
kinsman of the king of England, accompanied Eleanor of Provence to England to
become the bride of King Henry III. (S) Chronicles of the Age of Chivalry,
2000, P56. [Thibault had more than 300 horsemen accompany Eleanor.]

1236, Peter, count of Brittany, ordered to escort Theobald,
king of Navarre, from the royal court to Nantes. [Thibaut, as part of the
conditions of an arranged peace, promised to stay either 7 years beyond seas on
crusade, or in his kingdom of Navarre.]

1237, Through Pope Gregory IX, and after disagreements about
the marriage arraignment of their children, Fernando III and Teobaldo I of
Navarra made a peace agreement.

Thibaut went on crusade in Romania.

1238, A “monstrous and inhuman race of men”, with a leader
called Kan, began to overun far eastern Europe.

9/1/1239, Thibaut on crusade landed with a French contingent at
Acre.

Thibaut’s forces were defeated by Egyptians at both Ascalon and
Gaza. Amaury de Montfort and many other French knights were captured.

9/1240, Thibaut returned to Provins, France with the Damascus
rose [which was cross bred to produce many of the modern varieties.]

6/24/1241, Thibaut and the entire French court was at Saumur
in Anjou for the knighting of Alphonse, brother of King Louix IX. [Joinville, a
witness to the event estimated 3000 knights in attendance.] (S) Women in the
Middle Ages, Gies, 1991.

10/8/1242 at Bordeaux, France, Safe-conduct, until Lent, for
Th[ibaut] king of Navarre, count palatine of Champagne and Brie, coming to the
king [Henry III] to speak with him. (S) CPRs.

1242-3, At Bordeaux, France, Thibaut met with King Henry III of
England.

3/13/1243, at Bordeaux, France, Safe-conduct, for Th[eobald]
king of Navarre, … through the king’s [Henry III] land towards parts of
Navarre. (S) CPRs.

7/20/1243, Safe-conduct for Peter, chaplain of the queen of
Navarre. (S) CPRs.

8/1243, Nicholas de Molis, seneschal of King Henry III of
England, besieged Grammont and captured it from the King of Navarre.

8/12/1244, To Nicholas de Molis, seneschal of Gascony. Whereas
the king [Henry III of England] promised Th. count of Flanders and Hainault
that in the amending of the agressionsand damages committed upon Thibaut, king of Navarre, by the king and his
men of Bayonne, … aggressions to be amended and restitution to be made for
damages. (S) CPRs.

11/15/1244, Acceptance of a prest of 1000 marks which the good
men of Bayonne have made to Nicholas de Molis, seneschal of Gascony [of King
Henry III], to maintain the war against the king of Navarre, … (S) CPRs.

Thibaut and King Henry III of England made a four-year truce.

5/12/1245, Safe-conduct, for four years … for John de
Molendinis and Leoninus de Sezanina, knights of the king’s [Henry III of
England] kinsman, the king of Navarre, going and returning through the land of
Gascony. (S) CPRs.

2/6/1249, The king [Henry III of England] has understood the
form of the compromise between his kinsman Thibaut, king of Navarre, county
palatine of Champagne and Brie, and the king’s brother in law S. de Monteforti,
earl of Leicester, to the following effect … arbritration … these four shall
pronounce the award before Midsummer, 1249 … (S) CPRs.

7/11/1253, Thibaut died, buried in Pamplona, succeeded by his
son Thibaut V.

10/26/1253, Safe-conduct for Margaret, queen of Navarre, and
her household, going through Gascony to Champagne. (S) CPRs.

1253-56, Margaret regent of Champagne and Navarre during the
minority of her son.

4/1254, Queen Marguerite of Navarre, regent, visited the
king Jamie of Aragon at his court in Monteaguado seeking an alliance. (S)
Alfonso 10, The Learned, Marta-Nez, 2010, P109.

4/12/1256, Margaret died at Provins; buried at Clairval.

(S) Aristocratic Women in Medieval France, Evergates, 1999.

Children of Thibaut and Margaret:

i. Thibaut V of Navarre, born ~1235 in France.

8/25/1253, Safe-conduct for Thibaut, eldest son and heir of the
king of Navarre, and his household, going through the land and power of the
king [Henry III of England.]